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First, success with complication is is similar to fail forward but you can still simply fail. In some cases that makes sense to me...

The question has been how to implement it without modifying the already generated setting or changing the rules of the game. It's also...

Were they runes of demon summoning before the roll to interpret them, or after?

The problem with Gygax was that he was very schizophrenic in his writing, often writing passages and rules that were in complete...

Well, several factors. The dice indicates something special happens. The player is going to be looking at the DM to tell him what that...

I've been told more than once (albeit from the same poster) that this thread is an exception, where folks are supposed to complain about...

Oh look, that goalpost wizzed past again. Not sure if its a US goalpost or a UK one though. I am pretty sure they asked for you to...

The dice in certain games, in conjunction with the rules, can provide fairly clear examples of how to interpret a fail forward...

If they don't play and don't want to play your games, what value do examples from those games give them?

Not a fan. Talk to your players and/or GM before you play, or work out disagreement as it occurs at the table. Creating binding rules...

Failing a saving throw can get you killed, but we accept those, and that's about as permanent a removal of character volition as you can...

It doesn't seem to me to be just about how different games approach play. It seems IMO to be at least as much about coming up with cute...

That's bias for the characters, not being a neutral arbiter. If I have a challenging encounter set up and they get there and through...

Yep. It can be confusing to use "level" for that many different things. Thanks for talking about spell levels. That was the one I was...

So, someone who doesn't like something is supposed to just bow out quietly rather than speaking in opposition to that which they don't...